TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2797, 13 January 1888, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

Vv:- 7 (fisBOBNE, January 12. ' ,-.. M-lllpverae Court in Banco Mr W, Brasaay, solifor contempt hi w|p|ipply with order to.

pay-Mi I .'Maude moneys. whiehJie hady ..received as solicitor. The Chief Jus- • tice said Jhe- application should be made to v strike i'Brajssey off the r011..', Mr: Cornford appeared for Mr Brassey, | and said he was -absolutely unable.to ■ pay. TlieChief Justice said he .must commit Brassey to -Napier Gaol.' Mr Cornford asked for an adjournment to enable Brassey to file his schedule. His Honor said that would not provide a remedy. Mr Ohrisp consented to. an adjournment for three hours. On resuming, Mr Ohrisp announced the money had been paid, aud Mr Brassey, who was in the custody of the Sheriff was discharged. Wesiport, January 12. . Oilers are in hand for 5000 tons of Westporteoal, including supplies for the warships in Wellington harbor. Sixteen hundred ounces of gold were shipped by the Bank of New. Zealand at Westport last week. ' Christchuboh, January 11. - During 1887 there were slaughtered at the Belfast Freezing Works 226,768 sheep and lambs, 242 cattle, and 275 pigs, an increase of 51,879 sheep and lambs and 22 cattle oyer the previous year, and are within 20,000 of being double the number of sheep and lambs killed during 1875'. Thb largest killing in any quarter of 1887 was during that ending 81st March, in which 70,927 sheep and lambs and 16 cattle were slaughtered. The smallest .number for any< one quarter wa3 that ending 41st December, when 45,087 sheep and 47 cattle were killed. '.'"THE YACHT PIRATES.".'. •Christchurch, January 13. The Kaiapoi police report seeing a .small cutter, reefed, answering the description of the yacht Dido, standing to the south of the Waimakiriri bar at ; 6 p.m. yesterday. WRECKED AND SAVED. , Patea, January 13. ' The s.s, Waverley was successfully launched at 8.40 this morning, and is now coining up to the wharf.